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ISDEI TO NEW ADTERTiSEMENTS.
Meetings—Landrum Lodge No. 49. F. and
A. M.; Joseph and Savannah Lodges 1.0
B. B.; Commissioners Savannah Fire snd
Marine Insurance Cos,; Chatham Light In
fantry,
Beecial Notu'ES—Fine Trotting Mare for
Baffle; Gold Watch for Raffle: Pianos, Davis
Bros.; Townsend, the Printer.
The Charter Oak Stove—Clarke A
Daniels.
Sprino Goods—B. H. Levy A Bro.
Grand Spring Opening—At Platshek's.
i Grand Spring Opening—At Eckstein's.
i '-wjART®TS’ Material, Etc.—L. AB.S. M. If.
S ■'cheap Colcmn advertisements— Help
i, 7 anted; Employment Wanted; lor Rent;
Lost; Board; Personal; Miscellaneous
“oil Stovrs —Jas. S. Silva A -on.
Mules for Sale—Dixon A Murphy.
Stoves—Lovell A I.attimore.
Auction Sales—Underwriter’s Sale of
. Groceries, etc., by J. McLaughlin A Son; De
•irable Building Lots, by I. n. Laßoche’s
Sons: Household and Kitchen Furniture, by
C. 11. Dorsett.
Special Notice—J. P. Germaine.
Spring Opening—Mine. Desbouillons.
Butter—Wra. G. Cooper.
Our Illustrations.
The Morning News to-morrow morn
ing, in continuation of its illustrations,
will contain a line illustration oi the in
terior of St. John’s church. The illustra
tions this and to-morrow morning are the
first of a series of illustrations of the
churches and clergymen of Savannah
which appear from time to time.
What the South uceds is to realize that
3here is still virtue in a steel plow.
It is a wise oflice-holder who remem
bers the pledges he made before he was
elected. Gov. Gordon has not forgotten
those he made relative to the convicts.
Senator Sherman was wise not to waste
any of his eloquence in Georgia. The use
of a magnifying class is required in order
to discover the Republican party in this
>Btate.
Temperance sentiments have had a won
derful growth in Canada. Tne politicians
recognize the fact, and are giviug their
upport to prouibition. The Premier of
Nova Scotia advised the liquor dealers,
the other day, to prepare for the inevi
table.
The Inhabitants of Hisia Shib, China,
have no use for tramps. Not long ago
600 tramps were inveigled into a temple
in that town and all but forty were
’bdbned to death. It is not likely that
any of the tramps in this country will
■want to make a summer pilgrimage to
Ilisia bbib.
A remarkable case of alleged laith cure
Is reported at Kokomo, Ind. Mrs. Joseph
Herman, of that place, who was a para
lytic for several years, was carried to a
revival meetiug. l’rayers were offered for
her recovery, and immediately alter she
arose and walked, it 19 said that physi
cians pronounce her cured.
Brigham Young, the Mormon, is in Mew
York. The other day he visited Black
ell’s Island, and while in the insane
tVylum sang so sweetly that some ol the
lamented women shod tears, it singing
tho only means used by Mornu ns to
BflSke women shed tears the Edmunds hill
perhaps be unnecessary.
|B. D. Harrison, formerly a clerk at
SBioker’s hotel, Wasnimrt >u, has nisii-
suit against J. G. Fair, Jr., son or
Fair, for $20,001) damages be
/cause of having been suot at when Fair
was under the influence of liquor. Fair
Is likely to pay dearly for hia “little joke,”
as some ot his wild companiouscalled the
attempt to kill Harrison.
Oscar 8. Straus, the new Minister to
Hrkey, spent his early life in Talbotton,
a. In 1862 he moved to Columbus, Ga.,
and at the close of the war to New York.
He is ol Hebraic descent, and is 30 years
old. Hon. 8. 8. Cox says that he will bo
acceptable to tbe Sultan, the Jews ot the
Ottoman empire being loyal, and, on that
account, treated with consideration.
The Paris papers, says tho New York
iierald, announce tho death, in a little
Bavarian village, of a Kussiau peasant
who, it ip said, drove the sledge in which
Napoleon I. traveled from Moscow to the
German frontier alter thedisastrous cam
paign in Russia. The peasant was PS
years old. The story is no doubt true,
lor as the years pass the number of per
aoiis who had some sort of conncoliou
With Napoleon I. Increases.
• The members ol the Illinois Legislature
TOu Untie to show their anger because the
railroads required them to give up their
passes. They are annoying the railroads
by various hills and resolutions ol a very
trivial nature. If the members of tbe
Illinois Legislature really wish to get
even on the question of passes they should
pass a bill abolisning the InterstateCom
xneroe Commission, or, better still, they
should undertake to abolish Congress,
Prof. McGee, of the Geological Survey,
Who wae sent by the government to
Charleston last year to investigate the
earthquake phenomena, predicts earth
quakes in tbe Kastern States, lie says
that displacement is now in progress at
a rate so astonishingly rapid as to oecu
aion surprise that earthquakes are not
ODore frequent, lie also says that tbe
cities of Pittsburg, Hichmond, Freder
icksburg, Washington, Baltimore, Port
Deposit, V. Ui.jlngtun, Philadelphia, Tren
ton and N<*wVork are oil tho line of dis
placement. It is comforting to know
list huiauua! is off the Hue-
Interstate Law Speculations.
Tbe interstate commerce law goes into
effect next Friday, and, for a while at
I ast, It will create a great deal of confu
sion in the business world. Avery large
percentage ol tbe business of tbe country
is. to a great extent, based upon trans
portation rates. All existing oontracts
for rates on interstate roads will expire
on April 1. and tbe business world will
hardly know how to go forward until It
finds out what rates the railroads ha?e
decided upon.
The railroads are doing their best to
agree upon rates, but there Is so much
doubt about the meaning of some of tae
most important sections of the law that it
would not be surprising if April 1 should
find them In about as much confusion
and uncertainty as they are now. It is
said that traffic on the great interstate
lines was never so heavy as at present.
This is because those who have freight
contracts are pushing their shipments
forward as rapidly as they csn for fear
that rates will be greatly increased after
the first of the month.
Oi course there is a great deal of specu
lation respecting the workings of the law.
Home of the ablest railroad men do not
hesitate to say that the law will prove
the ruin of a great many o! the smaller
railroad*, and tjat there will be, within a
year, railroad combinations more gigantic
than were ever thought possible by those
who have been the leading advocates of
great railroad systems.
.Mr. Albert Fink Is quoted as saying
that the effect of the law on business will
be to drive the producers of the far West
to tb6 wall, or force them to adopt the
slower transportaiion by way of tbe lakes.
He also says that many kinds of business
and manufacturing industries, which
have largely lived on competing rates,
wili be ruined. He is inclined to view
the law in the worst light, however, aud
may speak more strongly than his cooler
judgment would warrant.
The commission will have its hands full
for a long time after ft organizes, it will
have far more business thrust upon it
than it can attend to, and it will be the
kind of business that ought to be attended
to speedily. Tbe President probably saw
the necessity for cool-headed aud able
men as commissioners, but as satisfac
tory as the commissioners are it is not
probable that they will be able to prevent
confusion, complications, and even busi
ness disasters. It is hardly to be ex
pected, however, that such a revolution
in railroad management as this law pro
poses can be effected without disturbing
business relations more or less seriously.
An Opening for a Fair.
len’t it about time for the people of this
section of Georgia to have a fair? In 1870
and 1871 the must successful fairs, out
side of tbe great expositions, ever seen in
the South wpre held in this city. Since
that time the farming and business in
terests of this part of the State have in
creased more than ten fold. The number
of farms is much greater, and tbe coun
ties have grown in wealtn and population.
Both Florida and South Georgia have
seen great changes for the better within
the last ten years. Their progress has
been so marked as to attract very general
attention. Florida still believes In fairs,
and there is every reason to think that
she derives great benefit from them.
South Georgia, however, doesn’t appear
to take any further interest in them.
Wouldn’t It be a good thing for ail
the South Georgia counties if they
should hold a fair here in Savannah,
Georgia’s commercial metropolis, in the
ate spring or early fall, lasting a week or
so? There Is no doubt that it would
attract a large number of visitors, and
would pay handsomely. The cash re
ceipts might not more than pay ex
penses, but the advertisement which the
counties interested would get and the
benefits that would accrue to the farm
ers would be very valuable.
Of course It would be advisable to in
clude in theexhiblts live stock and manu
factured articles. It would also be ad
visable to have races. Savannah has
some experienced turfmen, and they
doubtless would raako the races a very
attractive feature.
Savannah has points of interest that
are well worth seeing, and they would
help to increase tbe attendance at the
fail. The railway to the sea will soon be
finished, and seashore will also attract
visitors.
The fair grounds are in a very good con
dition. At small expense they could he
made ready for use. The Agricultural
and Mechanical Association would
doubtless permit the use of them for a
fair tree of charge. Why .will not the
different agricultural and mechanical
associations of this onuntv tako hold of
this matter and make it a success?
•
• The Baltimore anil Ohio Ileal.
It appears to bo still a matter of doubt
who the parties are who are proposing to
buy the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. It
is understood that the firm of Ives ,t
Slayner, brokers, have an option for its
purchaso and that its condition is now
being investigated, but the public is still
in the dark respecting tho parties for
whom tbe firm is acting.
Baltimore, apparently, has become
tired of wrestling with the mystery, and
Is now quietly waiting for developments.
The option, It is understood, will expire
some'ime this week, and within tbe next
three or four days, perhaps, the names of
tba purchasers will bo disclosed.
The denial that .Jay Gould and Russel
Sage have anything to do with tbe deal is
not wholly credited In Wall street. Hints
have been thrown out within the last day
or two that Messrs. Ives and Htavner are
simply acting for tiiom and Alfred Sully.
There does not appear to be auy doubt that
Mr. Sully had au option on the property,
uml tho story lias been quite freely circu
lated that he lost $201),000 on it. Those
who knew Mr. Sully best, however, say
that he doesn’t drop money in that way,
and he himself says quite emphatically
that thero Is no truth in the story.
The deal may not be completed. If the
result of tbe examination of tho books of
the road Is not satisfactory Mr. Garrett
may have to hunt for other purchasers.
That he wants to sell the property no one
seems to doubt.
A physician Is always on duty at night
In the room of tbe Kmperor of Germany.
The Kmperor suffers from a weak heart.
While lie sleeps his pulse Is under the
linger of the physician, so that at tbe
least indication of disturbance about the
heart stimulants may be administered.
The physician sleep* during the day.
SAVA l ~uKi\LN(J NEWS: SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 1887—TWELVE FAGES.
Mr. Curran’s Case.
Those who condemn the President for
his civil service reform policy should
study carefully the case of Mr. Curran,
tbe Supervising Inspector of Steam Ves
sels for the Third district. The facts In
this case show quite conclusively that at
least one prominent politician, if he had
his way, would fill tho offices with men
who have been, or promise to be, of ser
vice to him, without regard to their fit
ness.
Mr. Curran is ati excellent officer. He
understands his duties and gives satis
faction. The President twice presented
bis name to the Senste because ol nia fine
record and the numerous requests from
those interested in steamboats, and each
time it was rejeced. The
question of Mr. Curran’s politics
has not bean raised so far as the public
knows. His nomination was rejected at
the request of Senator Gorman, of Mary
land, wno based his request on “Senato
rial courtesy.”
Senator Gorman is determined to have
a man, to whom he promised the office a
year or more ago, appointed. It is said
that the man is wholly unfit for the
plaoe and in the competitive examina
tion ranked far below Mr. Curran.
There is no particular reason why Mr.
Curran should be appointed if another
man equally as competent can be ob
tained, but there are the best reasons
why benator Gorman’s man shouldn’t be
appointed.
A committee representing the steam
boat interests of Baltimore called on the
President a few days ago and asked him
to appoint Mr. Curran again. The Presi
dent answered that be did not “want to
annoy the Senate too iar in the matter.”
h'e ought to keep on annoying if rather
than be forced into appointing Senator
Gorman’s henchman.
Nobody seems to have any objection to
Mr. Curran. Senator Gorman finds no
fault with him and has made no charges
against him. By biscourse he admits that
his only purpose in opposing him is to
get one of ins friends appointed to the
office.
For months efforts have been made to
have a local inspector of steamboats lor
this part of tbe Third district appointed,
but without success. The examination
which the law requires resulted in favor
of a Savannah man, but the Treasury
Department retused to appoint him
for the reason, it is understood, tnat
a Florida Congressman has been
promised the privilege of controlling the
appointment. There appears to be some
sort of courtesy in the Treasury Depart
ment, as well as in the Senate, which in
terferes with the President’s civil service
policy.
Protect the Streams.
The Ocmulgee river was once naviga
ble as high up as Macon. Steamboats
connected that city with the cities ol the
coast, and steamboat owners grew rich
in the business of transporting freight
and passengers. Gradually the river be
came shallow, until now no steamboats
go to Macon, and none but the
smallest go even as far as Hawkinsville.
The cause of the river’s becoming shallow
was the cutting down of the trees along
its banks. Tbe absence of trees and un
dergrowth permitted tbe soil to be washed
into the river with every heavy rain, fill
ing up the channel, and thus leaving a
depth of water scarcely sufficient to float
a canoe.
Other streams have shared the fate of
the Ocmulgee. Indeed, many ot the navi
gable streams in Georgia are rapidly
becoming little more than shallow
creeks. Every year their banks become
more barren of trees, and the soil ol tbe
cultivated lands the more easily finds its
way into the channels. The towns and
cities on such streams suffer injury to
their commerce beyond repair, but none
of them take any steps to protect them
selves.
Just now Georgia is taking some inter
est in forestry. The Governor has ap
pointed an “Arbor day,” and a movement
is on foot to have the General Assembly
ratify his action and make the occasion a
legal holiday. Tbe General Assembly
might ge a step farther. In order to pro
tect the navigable streams and the towns
and cities whose commerce is more or
less dependent upon them, it might enact
a law forbidding the cutting down of trees
upon the banks of streams. It might also
offer a small reward, or bounty, for every
tree planted upon the banks of navigable
streams. It will certainly be much
cheaper thus to protect naviga
ble streams than it will be
to keep up an interminable
dredging of them. Federal aid to rivers
and harbors is uncertain, and it Is rarely
satisfactory. Tbe States in their separate
capacities aro not likely to undertake
the work of keening them navigable. It
will be wise, tboretore, to fall back upon
nature and set ber to work to do wnat
neither Federal nor State governments
can be depended upon to do. Perhaps
some member of tbe General Assembly,
wbo lias the Interests ot the State at heart,
will take the itiliiatlve In the matter.
Even ir nothing definite is immediately
accomplished, the ugitatton will at least
draw the attention oi the thoughtful to
it, and In that way, eventually, some
thing may be done.
Grand Master Workman Powderly has
called a convention of the Knights of
Labor of Pennsylvania to meet in Harris
burg April 7. ’The object of the conven
tion Is to examine all bills pending in the
Pennsylvania Legislature with a view to
condemning those whiob are considered
improper. It is eaul that very fow mem
bers of the Pennsylvania Legislature
dare to oppose any bill which the Knights
of Labor favor. It is a strange state of
affairs. If the Pennsylvania Legislature
is controlled by the Knights of Labor
there seems to be no reason why tbe
Knights should not assume the entire
administration of the State government.
Mahone, of Virginia, has turned up at
Washington. It seems that he still has
some Influence there, for he has suc
ceeded in having John J. Campbell, Chief
Clerk in the Folding Department of the
Senate, removed, and Asa Rogers sp
pointed In his plaoe. Rogers, it is said.
Is one ot Mahonu's confidential friends.
It is a pity that Mahone cannot bo kept
in tho obscurity to which his course in
the Senate justly entitles him.
The Knights of Labor of Greenville,
Ky., have doue a sensible thing. Instead
ot spending their tlmo lighting the capi
talists they have bought a coal mine aud
have set about developing it.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Employment for Senator Sherman.
From the Cleveland Plain Pealer (Dein.)
John Sherman might as well come home and
go to raising chickens. Tnato'd tariff chest
nut will not make him President. lie will
never get the nomination while blame lives,
anu B aiue is several years younger than
Sherman.
•Tnst 8b In Georgia.
From tho Xashville American (Dem.)
Elections in Tennessee are as honest, at
least so far as the Democrats are concerned,
no in any Mate of the Cnioo. The on' v point
of dispute is that Democrats are firmly ot the
opinion that a Republican lias no right to vote
any oftener than a Democrat lias.
An Oplnlnu, Not a Prophecy.
From the Button Journal (Pep.)
A subscriber wishes to know who. in the
opinion of the Bostou Journal, will be the
next Republican candidates for President aud
Vice President. TheJourna ts not sufficiently
giited to even predict, with any degree of
assurance, a Be lection which depends upou so
many circumstances. Possibly it will be:
Blaine and Fairchild.
Sherman and Hawley.
Allison aud Long.
No Cause for Alarm.
From the Washington Poet (Pern .)
People who fear that American institutions
arc in danger of being overthrown because
the Pope thiDks of sending a nuncio to this
country will breathe es-ier wheu they learn
that if one comes be will be reee.ved only on
the ssme footing as any other distinguished
unofficial stranger. This country recognizes
but one government in Italy, that of the pres
ent king, and there is no precedent for tbe
official reception of the representative of a
church or a spiritual or spectral kingdom.
BRIGHT HITS.
A wink in time strengthens the soda water,
Tex te Sifting*.
“Women are poor, despicable creatures,
anyway.” aid Mr. Flyaway, savagely.
‘■Yes’’ assented Mrs. Flyaway, sweetly,
“ihi y are. \ always did like men better.”
And then Mr. Flyaway finished his break
fast wuh a great deal of silent thought.—Avs-
O t Jew naf ot Education .
Mrs. Jolltboy—Where on earth have you
been r
.Mr. J.—l cannot tell a lie; I’ve been at m’
offish.
Mrs. J.—That’s where we differ. I can tell
a lie—when I h ar one.
[Cruel silence, during which something is
heard to drop.] Ea.vad Lampoon.
“And so you’ve joined a gymnasium?” be
queried.
“Yes.”
“Going to take lessons in the manly art, I
suppose?”
"Oh, no. lam simply going to learn how
to dodge rolling-pins, press-boards, teapots
and general household furniture.” —Petr it
t ree Press.
“To take off my hat at the play, I agree,”
she said.
•'You’re au angel, by Jove!”
8 aid he.
She continued: “If you'll promise me
That you’ll not go out for a clove
’Tween the acts.” And he answered, with
aspect severe,
“O, keep on your hat if you want to, my
dear!” —Ejs'on Courier.
Omaha house-hunter—l thought you said
this house was a perfect gem?
Agent—lndeed it is, mam.
"Why, the ceilings have uo height at all.”
“That’s bo; they’ll be easy to keep clean,
mam.”
“And the windows are dreadfully small.”
“To keep tbe suu from fading the carpets,
mam.”
“And there is no bath-room.”
“That’s to save soap, main.”— Omaha World.
“What does this mean?” inquired one
friend ot another, as seated at a cafe table he
liauded over a bill of fare pointing to the
words “duck pate.”
W ith more of the air of a wag than an igno
ramus the friend replied:
•“Duck pate.’ Don’t you know what that
means? Why, it warns you that just about
this Dart of the menu they uncork the cham
pagne, and If you don’t duck vou’re pate
you’re apt to get hit.”— Yonkers (Jasstte,
A 12-year—old schoolboy, wbo had to be
called a dozen times in the'morning before he
came down to breakfast, was roused from bis
matin slumbers the other day by a loud clap
of thunder, the electric bolt knocking a big
hole m tbe roof of the house, going through
the coiling, splitting open the headboard of
the bed,singeing his hair and passing through
the floor and out of the kitchen do r. The
lad partly opened his eye-i, faiutly murmur
ed, “Yes, I’m coming,” and immediately
turned over for a fresh snooze,— Xornstowii
Herald.
Mrs. Tootoo—Now, Charlie, you’re really
not going to bring Mr. Early home with you
at this season of tne year!
Mr. Tootoo—Why, of course, dear. Why
not?”
• Because everything looks so bare! Why.
even the limbs of the trees have nothing on
them!”
“That’s so; I never thought of that. But
I’ll send up some garden hose I saw adver
tised, and I guess you can make them pre
sentable.” — Yonkers Statesman.
Several evenings ago Major Stofah went
up on Sixteenth street to see a young lady to
whom he lias been very attentive for some
months. She was not visible at first, and her
12-year-old-brother entertained the Major
A tier various questions the kid remarked:
“You aint contagious, are you?”
••Why, Johnnie, what do vou mean by
thai?” asked the Major, with an innocent
laugh of surprise.
••Üb, nothin’, I guess; I only heard mother
say you wasn’t, ’cause sister had been trying
to catch you all winL-r.and she couldn’t do it.”
The Major remained the rest of the evening,
but hasn’t been back since Lent began.—
Washington Critic.
I’EIthONAL.
Gen. Daniel E. Sickles provided dinner
for 150 funeral guests after tbe burial of bis
father.
Prince Natoleon 'Plon-l’lon), wboisnow
living In Switzerland, has begun a work ou
(Napoleon I.
Russell s aoe says that he hasn’t the faint
est belief that auytbiug in tiie line of a panic
is imminent.
Sidney Bartlett, a Boston lawyer of 88,
made a powerful argument the other day be
fore a court.
The Empress of Austria is about to publish
a volume of her adventures while yachting
iucogmlo in the Levant.
Prince Alrert Victor, eldest son of tho
Prince of W ale-., wears the tallest collars of
auy young oWu in England.
(mr John Lubbock says that “the early
Britons readily lent money on the promise of
repayment in the next world.”
Mmk. Yznaoa, the mother of Viseountess
Mundovilio and Lady Have, is trying to sell
tho family plantation in Louisiana.
Gen. Shirkan’s position seems to he about
as follows: Let me Riss the nation’s girls and
I care not wiiat happens to Brother John.
Lady Randolph Churchill rushed to a
photographer's after Queen Victoria’s last
"Drawing-room” and was photographed in
her court attire.
The eldest son of the German Crown Prince
la as strong a partisan as Bismarck himself,
lie refuses ov n to drink champagne, ami will
drink only German wines. ■
The Queen of itoumania presented Empe
ror William with a poem of her own compo
sition on the events of his life, written in her
own hand on white parchment, tho margin
being covered with pressed cornflowers.
J. O. Armour,son orPhii Armour, the Chi
cago beef potentate, is said to be as sharp at
a bargain as Ids father. Me possesses many
of hi- father's trails and is — thoroughly fitted
to take on his shoulders lht“ whole burden of
the vast business tho elder Armour lias built
up.
Frances Tloposok Burnett began her lit
erary career si 14. Her first two sketches
were printed in Godcy’s Lady’s Boor, for
which she received SBS. She gathered and
sold wild grain s iu East Tennessee for money
10 buv tiie postage stumps which covered the
transmission of her stories.
Dwight L. Moody has returned from his
Massachusetts home to Chicago and is hard at
his sermonizing again, “.standing room
only” is always the 8 p. m. motto at the place
where he preaches. Frank Murphy is still
using tip all Hie blue ribbon ho can get, lus
Chicago congregations being of a size w Ith
Brother Moody's.
Congressman Scott, of Kite, is closer to
the President tli.in aitv man in the eounirv
save Lamonl. Scott's hair ami moustache
are gray, his voice is u tenor which often
breaks Into n falsetto, he is an able debater,
but speaks only at rare intervals. The Presi
dent was pleased with Scott from the first,
and lUttr frtuudsUtp has never weakened.
Great Work Done by Men Over 70.
Arm the Ep ch.
The death o' Mr. Beecher has served to re
call the fact that a good deal of the world's
work is bung done by men over the age of
70. Conspicuous examples like tbe Emperor
of Geruiauv, who is 90; Von Moitke, who is
S8; M. Grevy, who is 76; Mr. Gladstone, who
is 77, and Prince Bismarck, who is 71, natu
rally strike the miud first; out were a care
ful investigation to be made of the conduct
of great enterprises even in our country,
where youtu comes early to the front, the
number of men born before 1816 who are oc
cupying positions of conspicuous influence
w ou and he found to bo surpria ugly large. Con
necticut possesses in a banker and railroad
president, who has passed the 97th birthday,
w bat we take to be the oldest specimen of an
active business man in the world.
Seasonable Capers.
From Ttttat Sifting).
Now is the time when Boreas
With maiden spring-time rudely flirts,
He blows and turns each daintv lass,
All furbelows and snowy skirts.
It is tbe season of the year
When all the people will attest.
Each sees the robin lirst appear,
To reconnoitre for the rest.
Each is the first, returning green.
In early vigor, to have met;
And each, of course, has only seen.
The primal, modest violet.
Til! the exclusiveness they claim
In sweets which others share as well;
Present in things of larger name,
A most suggestive parallel.
“Charley” Farweti as a Keferee.
From the fhiciQO yeecz.
When John V. Farwell and a prominent
foundryman of this city met to square ac
counts for the iron in "the dry goods mer
chant’s big building on Monroe street, a dis
pute arose as to the contract price of theiron.
The foundryman hold that the price agreed
upou was 3Jic. per pound, while the mer
chant claimed that the contract was made on
the basis or per pound. The difference
was aboutS 18,000. The fonndrvman. despair
ing of convincing the merchant of his error,
suggested that the dispute and all memoranda
hearing on the question be submitted to a
third party for tinal decision.
••But,” said Farwell, "t’m afraid that the
man you would name would be distasteful
to me.”
•■1 think not,” replied the foundryman: “he
is a man whom you know very well.”
"Who is lie?”
“Lhar.ey Frwell.”
•I oh a V. looked up in surprise. The propo
sition to submit to a member of bis own
house a dispute involvingslB,ooo which, if de
cided against him, would prove equally dis
astrous to the referee, was so bold and fair
that the old merchant could do nothing else
but accept it. The foundryman presented
his memoranda to Charley, who, after a
searenmg investigation, decided against his
brother, his firm and himself. Ever since
that time Charley has been something of an
enigma to John V.
2io Wine for Cullers.
From Washington Letter to AT w York Sun •
“No. we don’t offer wine to callers any
more,” said a bright society girl the other
day. “We southerners don’t feel as you do,
you know, and we have always had light
wines on our table, but this season we really
had to stop it. W hy, I have heard of such
dreadful things. Girls of my acquaintance—
nice girls, too—have actually gone home from
some of these receptions almost—ves, really,
isu tit frightful? It was bad enough for the
young men to drink so, but things are getting
worse and worse. Ves. the foreign drinks are
the worst, they go to your head so. don’t you
know, and it takes the least little bii to affect
a girl when she isn’t used to it. The gentle
men torment tuem so, too. Why, last sum
mer at the Springs mamma bad her hands
full with three of us, 1 can tell von. They had
wine all day long a* the gerihans anti wiDe
suppers at night. We never went to the sup
pers, but the gentlemen used to tease us at
the evening hops until we took wine to get
rid of them. Mamma shook her head at us
until her neck was stiff. Someof the gentle
men held fans in front of the girls’ faces so
that their mothers couldn’t see them. No,
I'm glad to say 1 wasn’t that mean. But
when we girls saw how things were going
this winter we thought mamma hadn’t been
a bit too strict. Yes, it’s dreadfully hard to
refuse sometimes. People think you are
queer, you know. There, I must pour some
tea for Mrs, Jones. Horrid weather, isn’t it?
Be sure ana come again before we go. Yes,
we go week alter next. Good-by.”
llancliig or Uisslug?
7". IF, 11 . in Harper's Bazar .
It may be asserted, in a general way. that
wherever In the United States you do not find
dancing you find kissing. In communities
where dancing was disapproved 1 have seen
“string games” callel for and carried into
practice at entertainments held in school
houses and even at church sociabies. In such
places church members—and, for aught 1
know, deacons—take part In tne amusement;
and 1 have seen it develop a friskiness, so to
speak, in grizzled men, which made them,
one would say, anything but seductive or be
guiling to the young and fair. Among those
of earlier years kissing becomes in such
communities a systematic pursuit, like
hunting or fishing. Young girls
whose parents object to it are
neglected or disliked; a young man in such a
village told a friend of mine, with some in
dignation, that she was the only girl in town
whom he had not kissed. It is" of no use to
object to it as immoral where the church
members are committed to it. Perhaps it
cannot be called immoral; but wheu society
has reached a certain stage of refinement
tnese games vanish. The symbol of that in
creased refinement is usually daueing.
Dancing. whatever its drawbacks, serves
practically as the antidote to kissing games;
where one begins the other dies out. They do
not seem to flourish side by side; at any rate,
people rarely go back from dancing to kiss
ing. Granting, for the sake of argument,
that it is necessary to have some amusement,
the choice lies m our villages and their scat
tered families between lhese two forms of
relaxation. Which is the better of the two ?
A Few Stock Prevaricators.
From the Brooklyn Haole,
“I said in my haste,” remarked the psalm
ist, “all men are liars." That there are more
liars in the world to-day than there were in
liavid’s time goes without saying, because
there are more men. And with this increase
of population, there has sprung into being a
new Ime of stock liars with whom David was
unacquainted; lair, average liars, who do a
plain, every-day business, and only ire on in
star parts when the star liar of the combina
tion is sick or tired or something. Among
these Bleady professionals may be mentioned:
The man wno “never reads the newspa
pers;”
The man who never sees the editorial cut
ting linn up until his attention has been
caked to it:”
The candidate who is “out of politics and
wouldn’t take tho nomination if it were of
fered him;”
The man who “put Cleveland whore he is;”
The man who "never had a day’s sickness
in Ills life;”
The man who says the captain told him “it
was the worst storm he nad ever experi
enced;”
The family who was in Europe three weeks,
•‘and went everywhere and saw everything;”
The professor who tells you that in all Ids
lne lie “never knew a child with one-half tho
marvelous talent for (musici (drawing) (elo
cution) (mathematics) (anything else) which
your child has already developed;”
The j —„i. .‘j'.yyDM'.'t nave taken $lOO for
that dog;”
The man who “made the mistake of his life
when ho didn’t read (lawi (medicine) (theolo
gy) (go on the stage;”)
The man whoso wife “doesn’t appreciate
him” (a great deal more accurately that ho
knows);
The man who “whipped every hoy ho ever
fought with at school;”
The man who “could take that text and
preach a great deal better sermon from It”
(tliau his pastor did);
The man who says “he wants you to tell
him just what you thtuk.” and “never feels
hurt at candid criticism, no matter how Se
vern it is;”
The man who “never slept a wink last
night;”
Tho man who "told (somebody you never
heard of) the day bofore (Cleveland) (Gar
field) (Blaine) was nominated, just on wiiat
ballot the convention would break on and
how it would go;”
Tho mail who "never made but ona mistake
in judging character in his life;”
The man who “cun remombsr the only lie
he ever told;”
The man who "was offered $9OO for that
horse the day before ho weut lame;” and
The man who "could turn a double hand
spring from the ground, backward or for
ward. when bo was a hoy. but hasn't tried it
for more than fifteen years;” (Sometime*,
with a redeeming impulse of gracious and
beautiful truth, this liar will udd. that “he
doesn’t believe he nould do it now.”)
J abhuk—Poor Jackson fools bud about his
wife’s death.
Jlbor—ls that so? Host does he show It?
Jabber-ilo hasn’t smiled since It happened.
Jiber—He must feel pretty bad to swear off
so suddenly JyntU CiHttn,
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Ther* is a man in Oshkosh, Wi., who feels
proud because h- 1 looks like the recently ex
humed mummy of Hameses I.
A thikt y-two FOOT spruce log was recently
sawed into hoards in a Puget Sound mill, and
made 6,400 feet of lumber without a knot.
San Diego, Cal., has one of the wisest
Chinamen in the world. He is a taundryman,
and he has kept an advertisement running in
the local paper for fifteen years.
The death by drowning at Sierra Madre,
Cal., of F, W. Gould makes the fifth consecu
tive case in which the eldest male member of
his family has perished by drowning.
Fannie Rasche. a beggar well known on
the streets of New Orleans for years past, died
in her miserable hovel the otherday, and hid
den in the room were a bank book and securi
ties representing $4,500,
Michael Davitt, at Harbor Spnngs.Mlch.,
cut a tree near that place that had an ax im
bedded in it, covered with concentric growths
that indicated that the ax was wielded and
thrust into the tree 100 years ago.
Hannah Battersby. the fattest woman in
the world, brought it all on herself by eating
sweets. For several years her average was a
pound of candy per day, and it cost her sev
eral hundred dollars to get ready to be a mu
seum subject.
The committee of Washington merchants
having In charge the arrangements for a car
nival, after the style of that held In New Or
leans, have decided to postpone the event un
til next fall. They still insist, however,
that an unprecedented carnival will be held
at that time.
The Boston Budget tells of a clergyman of
that city who, while being shaved, was capti
vated by the face of a young lady who hap
pened to look in the barbershop window. He
hurried Ins toilet, rushed out, overtook the
girl, made up to her, succeeded iu making a
good impression and married her in less than
a month.
The other day Prof. James G. May, of
Salem, Ind., concluded that he had taught
long enough aud closed his school. He chose
as the day the fifty-eighth anniversary of his
marriage. He had been teaching for sixty
live years, having spent 11,192 days in the
schoolroom, aud still, at the age of 62, was an
energetic and successful teacher.
A merchant in Los Angeles, Cal., observed
a newsboy peering down into the grating in
the sidewalk iu front of his store, one after
noon recently, ami upon inquiry learned that
the little chap had dropped a quarter into the
place aud was studying upon the best means
of recovering his wealth. The morenant sent
one of his clerks down into the cellar, recov
ered the coin and very coolly put it into his
till. An officer investigated tlie matter and
gave the boy 25c. to replace the coin of which
he bad been plundered.
Gold is shipped across the ocean in “specie
kegs,” made of extra hard wood with an extra
iron hoop, each keg containing $5,000. In the
interests of security each keg is treated to
what is technically known among the ship
pers as the “red tailing” process. At each
end of the keg, in the projecting run of the
staves above the head, are boretl four holes at
equidistant: intervals. Apiece of red tape is
run through these holes, crossing on the head
of the keg. and the ends finally meeting in the
centre. At the point of meeting the tape is
sealed to ihe keg’s head by wax bearing the
stump of the shipper.
Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, whose father bas
just died, is 66 years of age, but he manages
to keep younger and look younger than any
man on Manhattan Island of anything like
his years. It must be said he is suspected of
ÜBing a little dye on his well preserved cere
bral thatch. Gen. Sickles was in the State
Assembly as far back as 1847. He keeps him
self young by good living and by missing
nothing in the amusement line that is worth
seeing. While not a great eater or drinker
the General insists upon having good dishes
well cooked. He says that he hopes to see
the day when one of the biggest monuments
in every city in the world is dedicated to the
ablest cook.
It is said that Albany, N. Y., is the only
capital of the original thirteen States whioli
was not captured during the revolutionary
war. It stood like a Gibraltar of the colonial
cause, when Boston, New York and Phila
delphia had fallen, nuemies endeavored to
capture it from the nor! melted away by
the time they reached Saratoga. Time ami
time again did the English troops attempt to
force tneir way up the Hudson with ill suc
cess. During tho war of 1812 the attempt was
again made to capture Albany from the
north, but though the capital of the nation
was pillaged Albany remained in security.
Even in the dark daysof the seventeenth cen
tury tiie French and Indians did not come
closer yian Schenectady.
Wilson Barrett is made the hero of an
entertaining story. It is to the cflfect that the
daughter of a well-known business man. be
coming desperately smitten witb the English
actor, sent him a number of gushing letters in
which she reauesled him to meet her. Mr.
Barrett took no notice of the love-sick mai
den’s effusions at first, but his admirer be
came so persistent in her epistolary atten
tions that he took the trouble to learn who
and what she was. Satisfied that she was
siniplv a silly girl who should be taught a les
son. lie made an appointment with her. They
were to have a nice little dinner together, it
was arranged, but the girl was very disagree
ably surprised on being led into a well-known
resort to find all the members of her family
awaiting them. The scheme so nicely carried
out was planned by the girl’s father, to w bom
the actor had given all her letters. .Just how
ellicacious was the lesson can be imagined
when it is added that ihe young lady has
written a comedietta upon her experience,
entitled, “ohe Would and He Wouldn’t.”
Among the guests mentioned in a London
society paper as having attended the recep
tions of the “Marquis” de Leuville is a soi
disant Prince de Muntua, whose claims to the
title which he bears are on a par with that of
his host. The last Duke of Mantua. Padua
aud Prince of Gonzaga died in exile in Lon
don in the year 18H8 childless and without
leaving any relations or descendants, being
absolutely the last of his line. Unfortunately
the whole of his papers fell into the handsof
a kind of half valet, half secretary, whom he
had employed daring the latter years of his
life. Taking advantage of the fact that his
master hail lived In complete retirement and
was comparatively unknown in London,
this man soon assumed the honors,
titles and dignities of the dead
duke. By means of conferring
decorations, crosses anil medals on various
vain and ignorant persoss and then demand
ing heavy initiation foes for their entry on to
the “rolls of Hie members of his orders,” he
eked out a comfortable existence. A few
years ago, however, some pi r-ons who had
known tlie late Duke got hold of one or tiie
precious circulars, in wlurh he informed peo
ple that hu had conferred on them his decora
tion ami asked for fees, and after some con
sultation decided to place the matter In the
hands of tlie London police. As it was, how
ever, impossible to induce any one of the per
sons who had accepted his orders and paid
ihe fees to face public ridicule as prosecutors,
the detective department of Scotland Yard
was forced to content Itself with warn
ing the unpostorto stop his little game. It
is not known how lie has made his living
since then.
In tiie second and last installment of his
remarkable essay on Napoleon Bonaparte,
which appears in the current number of the
Kevue ties Deux Mondes, M. Taine cites sev
eral curious anecdotes in proof of the imnul
slve and electric character of the conqueror.
The Mal iteetas and llorgias of the country
whence came the ancestorsol the great Cori
can were not morn sudden and vehement In
their emotions and desires With Napoleon
no idea was siniplv speculative, li needed
instantaneous realization, and his though',
as was said by De Prailt, becaino a passion as
it g cw. On one occasion, when discussing
the terms ot the concordat with Volney, lie
gave the Senator a kick in the stomach which
sent Imu to bed for a week. When
suddenly surprised by Josephine at
St. Cloud with a lady he dashed
after Ills wife, who had only time to
escape, and iu the evening showed his anger
hv lireajtlng the furniture near his hands. On
ahother occasion, before the empire, lie
treated Berlhlertn a scurvy manner in pres
ence of a room full of people, Talleyrand, in
his quizzical wuy, told Berliner that Ills mas
ter was thinking of proclaiming himself king,
whereupon the ill-advised courtier wentover
to compliment the First Consul, Napoleon's
eves darted fury at ihe word king, and put
ting ms fist under the chin of Ihe unlucky
Berliner, lie pushed him toward tlie wall,
saving: "Idiot, who sent you here to raise my
bile?” lie swore and stamped while dictat
ing to his secretaries, ami Iu dressing himself
olten flung hia clothes in the lire if they did
not suit him. In short, M. 1 aloe’s interest
ing notice la a striking proof of Bt. August inn’s
saying thatt here Is no great genius without
an auuUturu ol madness in till uoinuosuiun
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